Comprehensive Training for Innovative Entrepreneurs and Investors
The Essentials Curriculum
The Essentials teach you to create a startup from the conception of the idea through formation, funding, operation, and sale. It also teaches you how to invest in startups using best practices. The courses are accessible to both aspiring and seasoned entrepreneurs, innovators, and investors and form a comprehensive curriculum based upon fundamentals, strategic thinking, real world examples, and practical advice. (Not all courses are yet released and course subjects are subject to change.) Detailed information on each released course follows the Curriculum summary.
Part One: Creating a Startup
1. Creating Innovation
1.101: Secrets of Innovative Companies
1.102: Creating Lean
1.103: Design and Data
1.104: Agile, Pivots, and Lean
2. Protecting Innovation
2.101: Copyright and Trademark
2.102: Patents
2.103: Driving Innovation Through IP Strategy
3. Creating Companies
3.101: Set Up Step By Step
3.102: Common Stock and Options
3.103: Founders and Early Talent
3.104: Best Governance Practices
Part Two: Financing a Startup
4. Financing Innovation
4.101: Fundamentals of Startup Investing
4.102: Preparing for Fundraising
4.103: Angels and Early Investors
4.104: Venture Terms: Economics
4.105: Venture Terms: Control and Protections
4.106: Creating Cap Tables
4.107: Diligence and Disclosures
4.108: Strategic Investment and Venture Debt
4.109: How Venture Funds Work
4.110: Down Rounds
4.111: Other Funding Sources, Securities, and Bad Deals
4.112: How Not to Raise Money
Part Three: Startup Day to Day
5. Legal
5.101: Contracts for Entrepreneurs I: The Basics
5.102: Contracts for Entrepreneurs II: Startup Issues
5.103: Trade Secrets and NDAs
5.104: Basics of Global Business
6. Talent
6.101: Talent
6.102: Legal Issues of Talent I: Labor and HR Survival
6.103: Legal Issues of Talent II: Discrimination and Harassment
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Part Four: Exiting a Startup
10. Realizing Value
10.101: Guerrilla Strategies for M&A
10.102: IPOs
10.103: Other Ways to Cash Out
11. Surviving Distress
11.101 Pivots and Turnarounds
11.102: Surviving and Thriving in Bad Times
Part Five: Investing In Startups
12. Investing
12.101: Common Investor Mistakes
12.102: Advanced Angel Investing
12.103: Evaluating and Managing Deal Flow
12.104: Advanced Diligence
12.105: Lessons from the Best Investors
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Part Six: Operating a Fund
14. Fund Management
14.101: Forming, Raising, and Operating a Fund
14.102: Advanced Fund Terms
14.103: Managing Bad Deals
15. Know Your Fund Team
15.101: Know Your Fund Team: The Fund Lawyer
15.102: Know Your Fund Team: The Placement Agent
15.103: Know Your Fund Team: The Fund Administrator
15.104: Know Your Fund Team: The Fund Auditor
Part Seven: Technology
16. Technology for Businesses
16.101: Data and Analytics I
16.102: Data and Analytics II
16.103: Machine Learning, Neural Networks, and AI
16.104: Computer Science for Managers
17. Using Technology
17.101: Excel for Entrepreneurs I
17.102: Excel for Entrepreneurs II
17.103: Technology Systems for Startups
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